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After seeing Tim Key and Daniel Kitson recently I appear to be taking more of an interest in stand-up comedy these days but don't know the first thing about who is doing the rounds at the moment who is any good.

Alex Horne is really good and currently doing Endinburgh warm up shows, if you like Tim Key ann Kitson you should check out anybody on the Invisible Dot roster really (Apart from Nick Mohammed who I really didn't get). Adam Riches is riotous, Johnny Sweet is great as well and Sheeps are well worth checking out for sketch-based stand-up

He just shouts at them for ten minutes about how much he hates them and they just boo him the whole time and he just keeps going. I love that guy. He also did a hilarious voiceover of a John Lennon/Chuck Berry live video where he (rightly) takes the piss out of Yoko Ono.

and by the time I saw him at Bush Hall a few months ago it had grown into the gigantic thing it is now. Was funny to see the thing getting written in the way as suggested and not just as some contrived zaniness.

Very funny I thought, probably too close to the bone for most Dissers though with his indie existential crises. 'We were cycling in Paris and everyone was saying isn't this amazing, aren't we having fun! And all I could think was - this will probably make a good memory. Someone asked me later how it had felt and I said, all I was thinking was how I was going to describe it to you!'

but his belief that every opinion he has is unquestionably right gets a bit grating. Comes across as thinking he's far cleverer than he actually is.

Saw him on his last tour and was a little cringey at points. Far preferred it when he was talking through his Black Flag tour days than telling everyone about his holidays and how wonderful everyone in Haiti thinks he is.